To add an image, you create a module for images and define a view that displays an element in the module. Then, you display the view in a window on the home page.
Before you begin
To add a module, you must be a workspace administrator.
About this task
You can customize your home page to:
▪ display information about Focal Point
▪ add an image to a workspace home page
▪ display a view, an OpenSocial gadget, or a Report gadget
▪ hide empty windows if a home page window is empty when a view does not contain any elements
▪ set the visibility of a window or an inherited window
▪ rich text hover is not supported in the homepage.
Procedure
1 Add a module for storing image files. You might name the module Images.
2 Click the Settings icon , and then, from the Configure group, click Attributes.
The available attributes are listed.
3 To add the attribute to the module, click the file attribute.
4 In the file attribute, remove the following default text in the Name field: New File Attribute, and then click OK.
In the attribute list, the file attribute is displayed as (untitled).
5 To add a title to the module, click the Title attribute.
6 In the title attribute, remove the following default text in the Name field: Title. Click OK.
In the attribute list, the title attribute is displayed as (untitled).
7 Click the Settings icon , and then, from the Configure group, click Modules. Select the module that you created for storing image files.
In this example, the name of the module is Images.
8 In the Prefix Attribute list, select None, and then click OK.
9 Create an element for the module, and upload the image to the file attribute. Make note of the value in the ID attribute of the element because this value is required while defining the view.
10 Create a view that displays only the image.
▪ Create the view rule:
Show elements whose ID is element ID
where element ID is the ID of the uploaded image.
▪ For the file attribute, select Visible.
▪ Set all of the other attributes in the view to None, and then click OK.
11 Add the view to your home page.
▪ From the user menu, select Home page settings.
▪ Click Add window.
▪ Edit the text in the Window Title field.
▪ Click View, and then select the created view. Click OK.
What to do next
Open the workspace home page and verify that the image is displayed.
, and then, from the Configure group, click Attributes.